Snow batters Northeast U.S. for second time in week

NEW YORK/BOSTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A deadly winter snowstorm
was forecast to lift on Monday night after walloping the
Northeastern United States, forcing the delay of Boston's Super
Bowl victory parade and snarling air traffic at several major
airports.

The second major storm in less than a week pummeled
residents from New York City to Boston with snow, freezing rain
and gusty winds. Weather conditions were a factor in at least 10
deaths, including some in the Midwest where the storm hit
heavily on Sunday into Monday.

Boston, already blanketed by 2 feet (60 cm) of snow from a
blizzard last week and predicted to get a further foot, set a
record for the snowiest seven-day period in the city's history.
The 34.2 inches (87 cm) measured by 1 p.m. on Monday surpassed
the 31.2 inches (79 cm) set in January 1996.

Deep snow prompted Mayor Marty Walsh to postpone by one day
until Wednesday the parade to celebrate the New England
Patriots' 28-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks in Sunday's Super
Bowl. Jury selection for the federal trial of accused Boston
Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was also delayed until
Wednesday.

Hundreds of flights were canceled at Boston's Logan
International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport in
New Jersey, New York's LaGuardia airport and Chicago's O'Hare
International Airport, according to Flightaware.com.

The National Weather Service (NWS) forecast the storm would
lift on Monday night and that it would be sunny in Boston on
Tuesday.

Weather conditions contributed to at least 10 deaths,
including a woman struck and killed by a snowplow in a Boston
suburb and the death of an overnight university dining hall
worker in Connecticut. Four people were killed in highway
crashes in New York and Indiana, there was a snowmobile fatality
in Michigan, and three died while clearing snow in Wisconsin,
according to officials and local media reports.

Ice caused a crowded subway train to stall on an elevated
stretch of track in New York City and service was suspended or
delayed on some Boston trains because of icy power lines.

So many workers - 36 percent of staff - failed to make it to
the Cook County Jail in Chicago that it was put on lockdown,
limiting visitation for the 9,000 inmates typically housed
there, Sheriff Tom Dart said.

NO HELP FROM THE GROUNDHOG

Snow-weary residents could take little comfort from
groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, who emerged from his burrow on
Monday morning in western Pennsylvania and saw his shadow.
According to legend, seeing his shadow means six more weeks of
winter.

Plowing crews in Maine, where nearly 3 feet (90 cm) of snow
fell last week, struggled to cope with the accumulation.

The NWS warned of dangerous wind chills through the coming
days. "Bitterly cold weather will settle in behind this system
from the Upper Midwest to New England," it said.

The storm, which dropped more than 19 inches (48 cm) of snow
at O'Hare airport, the fifth biggest snow event recorded in
Chicago, prompted some city residents to use the traditional
"dibs" system to reserve dug-out parking spaces with lawn
chairs, laundry baskets or other household items.

"You have to. You put time in, and time is money," said
plumber Keith Glover, 32.

If someone were to move his markers and take his spot, he
said, "I'd bury the car in snow. Then they can dig it out."
(Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen and Barbara Goldberg in
New York, Richard Weizel in Connecticut, Mary Wisniewski, Fiona
Ortiz and Christine Stebbins in Chicago, Elizabeth Daley in
Punxsutawney, Pa., Dave Sherwood in Bowdoinham, Maine, and Tim
McLaughlin in Boston; Editing by Will Dunham, Grant McCool and
Peter Cooney)